LOCATION: Aosta, Cathedral, window sVIII

DIMENSIONS: 80 x 75 cms.

PROVENANCE: unknown

CHRONOLOGY: first half of the XVI century

AUTHORS: local school

PATRONAGE: the donor is not known

SUBJECT: St. Bernard of Menthon, Archdeacon of the Cathedral of Aosta, founder of the monastery of the Great Saint Bernard (beginning of the XIth century). 
Represented as a youthful beardless monk, wearing a white habit and a stole, with a devil or dragon at the bottom and
architectonic framing columns.

CRITICAL NOTES: the stained glass window has nothing in common with the other ones in the same church, for its dimensions, the composition and the inferior quality.

CONDITIONS: in very poor condition: the stained glass window presents visible breakage that has been reconnected by leads, and lost tesseras.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: see Bibl. Cattedrale di Aosta .

PHOTOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Archivio CVMA Italia – Dono Mons. Garino

EDITOR/CONTRIBUTOR: Emanuela Cappa, May 2003